Satmar Bikur CholimKosher Rooms Division
A stocked Kosher-room refrigerator at a Manhattan hospital
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From a small snack to a full Shabbos.

Our Division for Kosher Rooms provides food to the Kosher rooms of all 12 hospitals we serve in New York, and of select medical centers, every day.

Grab-and-go · hot & cold

Everything from small snacks to full meals.

The Kosher room in each hospital is stocked with food that is ready when a patient or a family member needs it.

Dairy goods, blintzes and eggplant parmigiana sit beside all kinds of hot and cold dishes, ready to take and eat. It is there every day, for anyone sitting through a long night in the hospital.

A Kosher-room refrigerator stocked with packed meals
In the Kosher rooms

Sweet, fresh and festive.

Beyond the daily meals: treats on the shelves, a full Shabbos, and Yom Tov done properly.

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Cakes, cookies & cut fruit

Many kinds of cakes and cookies, and a variety of fresh-cut fruit.

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A full Shabbos menu

A complete Shabbos menu in the Kosher rooms, so patients and their families can keep Shabbos in full, even in the hospital.

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Yom Tov meals & necessities

Beautiful Yom Tov meals, together with the necessities that each Yom Tov calls for.

Out-of-state patients

A home away from home.

When a patient comes to New York for treatment, we look after the whole family.

We provide everything needed for their stay: an apartment, food, laundry and whatever else the family requires while they are here. Often that includes clothing and tuition for the children as well.

Seating in a hospital Kosher room
How it gets there

From our pots to the Kosher room down the hall.

Cooked in our kitchen, driven by volunteers, waiting on the Kosher room shelf. The largest runs are on Thursday night before Shabbos and on Erev Yom Tov.

Cooked fresh

Soups, chicken, kugels and blintzes, made in big batches in our Williamsburg kitchen.

Driven by volunteers

Private volunteers load their cars a few times a week, with the biggest run on Thursday night.

Waiting on the shelf

The rooms stay stocked between deliveries, so food is there at any hour of the night.

Rows of soup ready to go
Fresh from the pot
Stirring soup
The kitchen
Soups packed and labeled
Packed & labeled
A stocked Kosher-room refrigerator
In the Kosher room
Keep the shelves full

One day of meals, one hospital.

$1,000 sponsors every meal at one hospital for a full day.

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